The Castles of IrelandUlster Province : County TyroneCompiled by Lee JohnsonEarly Stone Fortifications - Castles, Towers and Strong-Houses(What, Where, Who and When? -- A work in progress)
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Castle
and Bawn - "a fair Castle of stone & lyme [about 23 foot square
& 3 stories high] & a house standing with a Bawne of lyme &
stone, 140ft square & 14ft high with 4 flankers". One of the
flanking towers still stands, at the edge of sloping ground down to the
lake, with hints of the foundations of the bawn wall running away to N
(E wall) & W (S wall). There is a doorway in the E wall, opposite to
the entrance to the tower within the bawn.

House
and Bawn - The Caulfield arms appear over the gatehouse, which has
murder holes & gun-loops &, with a fragment of bawn-wall, is
earlier than the main house. This was undefended, 3 storeys high &
originally of half-H plan.

Plantation
Castle and Bawn - "of lyme & stone, 42ft square 7ft high with
noe flankers. There is within the Bawne the foundation of a castle 5ft
high, but no gates to the Bawne nor any body dwelling there".

Bodoney
Lower, Beltrim

H48878636

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Benburb
Castle (Wingfields Castle)

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Castle
and Bawn - The bawn walls enclose an irregular rectangular area, the
walls standing to almost full height, plentifully supplied with gun
loops. At NW & NE corners are rectangular towers, large, with fire
places & more like tall houses than ordinary flankers. A the S end
is a circular tower with a stair down to a postern gate at the cliff
edge.

Plantation
Castle - It is 2 storeys high, with a single chamber on each floor. On 3
sides there are external walls, each of which contained a bay window
unit; on the W is an internal cross wall beyond which the building is
lost beneath a mound of stone & mortar debris. The basement level
has gun-loops.

????
-- Built by -- Sir John Davies

Longfield
West, Kirlish

H31967580

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Castle
Derg (Castlesessagh Bawn)

Ruins

Castle?
- "a bawne of stone & lyme, not finished, being 100ft long,
80ft broad & 5ft high, with 3 open Flankers of the same
height..". The N wall & 2 square corner turrets survive in
ruined state - the other walls survive only as foundations. Excavations
revealed at least 4 phases of activity on the site, from a pre-C15th
ditch to the construction of the castle.

Defended
House and Bawn - The site survives as a rectangular block 6.5m wide x
14m long, consisting of the W gable & chimney stack, with fragments
of N, E & S walls of a 2-3 storey defended house. On the ground
floor is a large fire place & bread oven set into the W gable. The
1st floor had large windows & a fire place. Little detail can be
seen above this due to dense ivy. It was built & rebuilt several
times over the course of C17th.

Castle?
- The remains consist of a platform 24m N-S x 18.3m E-W, defined by a
scarp 8m high at W, 4m at N & c.0.5m at S & W.

Ardstraw,
Moyle Glebe

H41098619

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Castlestewart
( Stewart Hall, Stewartstown Castle)

Ruins

Castle
- The site of the castle consists of a sub-rectangular platform, 35m N-S
x 60m E-W, standing 1.5m high. There is a level area S of this which
falls away to W along the line of what may be a bawn dividing the castle
from the remains of a series of regularly spaced hollows which flank the
old avenue running between the castle & Stewartstown.

Fortified
House - consisted of an L-shaped 3 storey house with a corbelled stair.
The entrance is at ground floor & this floor also has large windows,
giving a domestic rather than defensive appearance. However a large
round tower with pistol loops covers the house wall.

Castle
and Bawn -Gothic ruin consists of a "double pile with a five-bay, 3
storey, S front with arched windows to the top floor & a
fore-standing round tower in the central bay" (Rowan). The NW
perimeter is still bounded by what seems to be the remains of
foundations of a bawn wall.

????
-- Bawn Built by -- Sir John Drummond
c18th -- Castle built by -- Hamiltons

Castle
and Baily - It is one of the few native built stone castles in Ireland.
An artificially scarped mound forms an elevated bailey surrounded by a
polygonal curtain wall. At SW end is a tower that looks like a
gatehouse, entered between high D-shaped towers, but the only way in was
up a stair & through the hall at 1st floor level, like in a
tower-house

Campaign
Fort - It is 2 storeys high, brick-built, the lower storey being
stone-faced on the outside. It consists of a central rectangular block
with 4 spear-shaped angle towers with gun loops. The NW tower is partly
demolished & the W curtain wall destroyed. The entrance was on the S
side of the E curtain wall. On the 1st floor are some wide windows.

Castle?
- "a Castle of lyme & stone of good strength,4 stories
high...about it is a Bawne of lyme & stone, 81ft long, 66ft broad
& 9ft high, with 2 Flankers...". It is of the type of
contemporary English Manor houses, with little defensive equipment.

Castle
- The castle takes the form of a tall, square tower with rounded towers
at each corner. It is not economically designed for defence with guns;
the symmetrical plan with the round towers is more reminiscent of
medieval keeps. The entrance is at ground level in the NW tower. 3 story
tower with 4 rounded corner-towers